Talk on 'Why Women Still Can't Have It All' set at RVCC's Branchburg campus

Anne-Marie Slaughter will speak on “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Monday, March 4, at 6:30 p.m., at Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) in Branchburg. Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

The free program, sponsored by the College’s Humanities, Social Sciences & Education Department, will be held in the Conference Center at RVCC’s Branchburg Campus.
From 2009-2011 Slaughter served as Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Upon leaving the State Department she received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award for her work leading the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, as well as a Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award from the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe.

Slaughter has written or edited six books, including “A New World Order” (2004) and “The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World” (2007), and more than 100 scholarly articles. Slaughter is a frequent contributor to both mainstream and new media, writing a monthly column for Project Syndicate, providing commentary on blogs, radio, and television, and curating foreign policy news for more than 60,000 followers on Twitter. She has served on many boards, including the Council of Foreign Relations and the McDonald's Corporation, and is currently on the board of the New America Foundation and Abt Associates. Foreign Policy magazine named her to its annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

She received a B.A. from Princeton; an M.Phil and D.Phil in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar; and a J.D. from Harvard.
For additional information, contact Dr. Barbara Seater at bseater@raritanval.edu or 908-526-1200, ext. 8514.

RVCC’s main campus is located at 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg. RVCC @ Bridgewater, located at 14 Vogt Drive, offers technical, trade, credit and non-credit courses. For further information, visit raritanval.edu.